<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Is not every meanest day the confluence of two eternities? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11131]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is not every meanest day the confluence of two eternities?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44490]]></link><description><![CDATA[A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Media: 99,99% of what happens is not on the news ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Media: 99,99% of what happens is not on the news]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tragedy of Srebrenica will forever haunt the history of the United Nations ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57800]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tragedy of Srebrenica will forever haunt the history of the United Nations]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are born into the world of nature; our second birth is into theworld of spirit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22769]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are born into the world of nature; our second birth is into theworld of spirit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62403]]></link><description><![CDATA[A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64801]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Cincinnati policeman was using his nightsticklike a posthole digger.(in reference to the death by ruptured kidneyand other factors after ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/252]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Cincinnati policeman was using his nightsticklike a posthole digger.(in reference to the death by ruptured kidneyand other factors after the clubbing of Nathaniel Jonesby 2 Cincinnati policemen).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Steadfastness in believing doth not exclude all temptations from without. When we say a tree is firmly rooted, we do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Steadfastness in believing doth not exclude all temptations from without. When we say a tree is firmly rooted, we do not say the wind never blows upon it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No sacrifice short of individual liberty, individual self-respect, and individual enterprise is too great a price to pay for permanent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54611]]></link><description><![CDATA[No sacrifice short of individual liberty, individual self-respect, and individual enterprise is too great a price to pay for permanent peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5847]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man must behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness was not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16798]]></link><description><![CDATA[I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2517]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23136]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I long to journey endlessly, always in search of something new. Always alert. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65368]]></link><description><![CDATA[I long to journey endlessly, always in search of something new. Always alert.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a nice bonus but, you know, I have to pay taxes too. (after winning the Grand Slam Cup.) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57562]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a nice bonus but, you know, I have to pay taxes too. (after winning the Grand Slam Cup.)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am often surprised by the cleverness, and now and again by the stupidity of my dog; and I have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58375]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am often surprised by the cleverness, and now and again by the stupidity of my dog; and I have similar experiences with mankind]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among these treasures of our land is water--fast becoming our most valuable, most prized, most critical resource. A blessing where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among these treasures of our land is water--fast becoming our most valuable, most prized, most critical resource. A blessing where properly used--but it can bring devastation and ruin when left uncontrolled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42834]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These surveys confirm the country's growing concern about excessive secrecy. They also show that citizens overwhelmingly believe that open government ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29287]]></link><description><![CDATA[These surveys confirm the country's growing concern about excessive secrecy. They also show that citizens overwhelmingly believe that open government is good government. The public understands that openness - to the greatest degree possible - will produce government that is more efficient, more honest and more responsive to the citizens it serves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing certain except the unforeseen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14524]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing certain except the unforeseen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath & Wells, Hymnographer, 1711  [The] doctrine of [inevitable] progress sustained our fathers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath & Wells, Hymnographer, 1711  [The] doctrine of [inevitable] progress sustained our fathers in the carrying of capitalistic democratic culture to most parts of the globe. Its core was the conviction that, in thus extending the range of western liberal culture and developing its assumptions, they were in effect establishing on earth that which would grow into the kingdom of God. Some put it sharply but un-Biblically: "building the kingdom"; others, of a more secular turn of mind, echoed J. A. Symonds' hymn, "These Things Shall Be". That whole view exists today only as debris, for it has foundered on the rocks, not so much of human sin, as of the contradictions and complexities of the very western culture that was the substance of its belief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He did not yell anything, he did not say anything, he just ran his truck over the crosses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31426]]></link><description><![CDATA[He did not yell anything, he did not say anything, he just ran his truck over the crosses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15897]]></link><description><![CDATA[The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the things recessions do is uncover weak links. When you're in a strong economy, a bull market, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40338]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the things recessions do is uncover weak links. When you're in a strong economy, a bull market, you can paper over a lot of things. When you get under some strain, these things show up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27138]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1079]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years be past,  That I may give for every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62158]]></link><description><![CDATA[In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years be past,  That I may give for every day   Some good account at last.   - Isaac Watts,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6022]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23370]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two truly infinite things, the universe and stupidity. And I am unsure about the universe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58070]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two truly infinite things, the universe and stupidity. And I am unsure about the universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our Union is river, lake, ocean, and sky: Man breaks not the medal, when God cuts the die!  Though ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our Union is river, lake, ocean, and sky: Man breaks not the medal, when God cuts the die!  Though darkened with sulphur, though cloven with steel,   The blue arch will brighten, the waters will heal!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43898]]></link><description><![CDATA[A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14651]]></link><description><![CDATA[To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest mischief in the past century has been perpetrated by Rousseau with his doctrine of the goodness of human ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57007]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest mischief in the past century has been perpetrated by Rousseau with his doctrine of the goodness of human nature. The mob and the intellectuals derived from it the vision of a Golden Age which would arrive without fail once the noble human race could act according to its whims.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Proserpina, For the flowers now, that frighted thou let'st fall From Dis's waggon! daffodils, That come before the swallow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55775]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Proserpina, For the flowers now, that frighted thou let'st fall From Dis's waggon! daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phœbus in his strength,—a malady Most incident to maids; bold oxlips and The crown imperial; lilies of all kinds, The flower-de-luce being one. -The Winter's Tale. Act iv. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In time there is no present, In eternity no future,  In eternity no past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14212]]></link><description><![CDATA[In time there is no present, In eternity no future,  In eternity no past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of kids could be out like Whitney and not come to practice. But she would come from physical ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37387]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of kids could be out like Whitney and not come to practice. But she would come from physical therapy every day to practice and do what she could. ... She's the glue that holds us together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55023]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The richest minds need not large libraries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24763]]></link><description><![CDATA[The richest minds need not large libraries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59230</guid></item></channel></rss>